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What is the best way to do this

Asked by: hartekar

hello,

I need to know how to get data from some mailboxes which were backed up on an Exchange 2000 server to the newly rebuilt exchange 2003 server - I had to recreate exchange accounts for the users on the new server . I have catalogued the tapes on the new BackupExec 12 server and it can see them fine - I think I may have to restore the whole information store to another location and try to get the information from teh separate mailboxes out of it somehow. Any help would be appreciated .

Karen

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2008-04-22 at 02:55:03ID23342309
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Answers

 

by: masa77Posted on 2008-04-22 at 03:03:17ID: 21409392

Yes you could restore the stores to another location and then move boxes to current location and attach the mailbox to the user.

 

by: hartekarPosted on 2008-04-22 at 03:34:14ID: 21409541

HI,

My main problem at the minute is whenever I try to restore the mailboxes or the information store to anywhere it says that access is denied because the store was backed up with a different account on the other server.

 

by: masa77Posted on 2008-04-22 at 03:38:46ID: 21409566

So is theere still the user account left with which the backup is made?

 

by: hartekarPosted on 2008-06-10 at 04:46:34ID: 21750200

Hello, Sorry for not getting back earlier..have been so busy getting caught up in more pressing issues but now I have time to look at this again !

Teh answer to your question is YES , the account is still there but it is not now used for backups and restores once the exchange server was rebuilt and I cannot remember why thiis is the case.
I have also tried to create a recovery storage group in Exchange system manager and copied over a the exchange database which I had copied to the file and print server before we rebuilt the server with Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003 SP3 but there is nothing appearing in the mailbox store for the recovery storage group and I am not sure why this is the case. I am going to try installing Windows Support tools and running the ADSI editor so I can set up the owner of the recovery storage group to be the same as the new exchange database..

I THINK This is the next step but I have to admit I am just feeling my way here and hoping for the best


A very confused Karen

 

by: hartekarPosted on 2008-07-18 at 03:43:10ID: 31451081

HI ,

Thanks for this. What I did was create a Temporary storage group on he exchange server and let it create the files. Then I removed those and copied over the copy of the information store that I had and was then able to reconnect the mailboxes to new AD accounts that I had created and it worked a treat !

 

by: hartekarPosted on 2008-07-18 at 03:45:32ID: 22034356

This is all working fine now.

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